Lis hartel childhood diseases
Childhood diseases thrush...
Everybody interested in the history of dressage usually one day comes across the name of Lis Hartel. Even to this date books and articles feature the heartbreaking story of Hartel recovering from polio to be the first woman winning an Olympic medal in dressage
in the early 1950s.
Lis hartel childhood diseases
In my case I read the story as an 11-year old girl in a book by Hans- Heinrich Isenbart.
Since that day in 1988 I tried to find out more about Hartel's horse Jubilee, which enabled her to become a "goddess in the art of dressage" as the legendary Dr.
Gustav Rau from Germany once called her. Her horse unfortunately become of lesser concern to the public and in many publications probably due to the fact that's Hartel's life had been that exceptiona. Finally I had the opportunity to find out more about Jubilee, thanks to the efforts of Lis Hartel`s daughter Pernille Siesbye, who shared her memories with me.
Jubilee, The Family Horse
When Lis Hartel first sat on Jubilee in the 1940s she had already be